Abraham Lincoln Quotes

"Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed."

"To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men"

"I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end"

"That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."

"I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down..."

"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class"

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all"

"Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle."

"You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence."

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing: I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have l"

"charity toward all."

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in"

"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

"It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.''"

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met."

"You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time."

"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

"We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, wi"

"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax"